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Crime Problem? Call Blackwater Writes Philly Columnist

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: February 2, 2012

A retired municipal court judge recently suggested the city consider using national guard troops to patrol the streets of Philadelphia. The judge is running for a US congressional seat in the city’s first district. The criticisms of his ill thought out plan were swift enough.  Victor Fiorillo, writing in The Philly Post says: “Deploying any branch of […]

Posted in Opinion | Tagged Blackwater, Law Enforcement | Leave a comment

Washington Must Act Against Foxconn

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: January 25, 2012

Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” I never quite understood what he meant by that, but I think I’m beginning to.  The conditions at the Foxconn factories in China have been written about quite extensively in the New York Times and I think it’s at least worth […]

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MLK Speaks From Beyond the Grave

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: January 15, 2012

Rather than writing a diatribe about Martin Luther King Jr.’s importance today, I’ve decided to simply let him speak for himself, something rarely done in the mainstream press, despite their otherwise endless adulation. That’s the way it is with heroes. Societies rarely ever abandon them completely, but they ignore the inconvenient messages they deliver.  There […]

Posted in Opinion | Tagged MLKJr, OWS | 2 Responses

NDAA Now Law, President Issues Signing Statment

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: January 1, 2012

Yesterday, the President signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, a law that allows the president and the military to detain American citizens indefinitely without trial and allows them to transfer custody to “foreign entities” if they are accused of “substantially” providing aid to al Queda or “associated groups.” The signature was accompanied by […]

Posted in Opinion | Tagged Imperial Presidency, NDAA | Leave a comment

Christopher Nolan’s Batman as Social Criticism (Part 1)

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: December 20, 2011

Good art, real art that is, always reflects some greater reality about the times we live in. False art or corporate art seeks rather to distract from reality in an effort to get us to buy and consume more and more, never questioning how fragile the whole system is. We think the next Batman movie […]

Also posted in Reviews | Tagged Literary Criticism, OWS, Social Criticism | 4 Responses

The Unsustainability of Nearly Everything

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: December 11, 2011

Many of us on the internet have written about how growth is dead and that the GDP growth we are now experiencing (minor as it is) is due to massive deficit spending at a rate of about $1.6 trillion per year. Once you sit down and do the math, the unsustainability of almost our entire […]

Posted in Opinion | Tagged Financial Crisis, Healthcare, Inflation | Leave a comment

On Indefinite Detention Without Trial

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: December 1, 2011

When I was a student in middle and high school, we would occasionally talk about the loss of civil liberties in tyrannical countries. It was explained to us that these dictatorships or countries headed in that direction would deny their citizens free speech, a fair trial and other basic rights.  This happened in all sorts […]

Posted in Opinion | Tagged Imperial Presidency, NDAA | 1 Response

Exponential Debt Expansion Explained

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: November 29, 2011

Chris Martenson is one of the market analysts we follow pretty regularly. He does good interviews and podcast every once in a while. He’s not quite as sensational as some of our favored economist and tends to be very measured and careful with his endorsement of ideas. Overall, we think he’s fairly accurate. Here Martenson […]

Posted in Opinion | Tagged Chris Martenson, Financial Crisis, Karl Denninger | Leave a comment

Judge Stands Up For the People and Everyone Complains

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: November 29, 2011

Judge Jed Rakoff is probably one of the few honest judges we have left.  He recently refused to accept an SEC settlement with Citigroup in which they sold mortgages and then bet against them, saying that the $95 million they were asked to pay was “pocket change” and required no admission of guilt. “If the […]

Posted in Opinion | Tagged Banks, Justice System | Leave a comment

ACLU: Proposed Law Will Allow Military to Detain American Citizens Indefinitely Without Trial

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: November 26, 2011

Are we about to take another major step toward tyranny?  According to the ACLU, on Monday or Tuesday, the Senate will vote on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which includes a provision which they say will allow the US Military to permanently detain American citizens indefinitely and without trial, akin to the Japanese internment camps […]

Posted in Opinion | Tagged Justice System, NDAA | 2 Responses
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